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Title: KIRKCALDY AND DISTRICT MOTOR CLUB ANNUAL FILM 1935

Reference number: 4659

Date: 1935

Director: [attrib. Dr Swanston]

Sound: silent

Original format: 9.5mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 14.16 mins

Description: The Kirkcaldy and District Motor Club Annual Film of 1935. Featuring general views of the motor cycling rally on St Andrews beach - shots include members of the club with their cars. General views of the Isle of Man Grand Prix.

Some images are mixed between live action footage and those of a film projected against a screen. Some tracking shots are very wobbly indeed, as they were taken from a moving vehicle.

See paper archive 3/8.

Credits: This film was edited by Dr. Swanston and photographed by him and Mr 'Bunt' Stewart

Shotlist: [Originally shotlisted from 9.5mm - shotlist timings subsequently added from Beta SP, control track]

credits. Sunday Sprint. Well dressed crowd standing beside motorcycle and car. Motorcycles on road, brief tracking shot (0.56) Opening run. Well dressed crowd smiling for camera, waving hats, c/u woman in hat. Brief shots several people smiling for camera. Small bonfire/smoke marker (?) Women smiling. Men driving motorcycles down dirt track. Tracking shot motorcycles on road. Sign for 'Sand Races Sunday 27th April 1935'. Pan shot people on beach (looks like St. Andrews, West Beach) preparing to race. Gvs motorbikes sand racing in circle. One biker falls off. Brief view cars, aerial view car. More elevated views motorcycles sand racing (3.16) Sporting rally. Various people in cars, smiling and setting off. Cars halted on country lane. Man on beach banging heel on ground. Gvs motorcycles racing on sand in circle. Small collision, biker falls. Brief insert upside down race footage (4.31) The Scottish Six Days. Car parked ext. large gates. Tracking shot of tree lined road. Gvs motorcycles, countryside, loch - brief view approaching pier. Motorcycles and motorcycles with sidecars race through country lane. Pan shot unidentified loch. Projected film of various motorcycle crashes when attempting to ascend dirt track slope (7.45) Opening Sand Meet. C/u man putting on goggles, projected film of land speed record (?). People on board ferry, one man pretending to be sick (8.26) Manx Grand Prix 1935. Motorcyclists line up at crowd lined grid. Racer No.48 push starts his motorcycle to a start, followed by two others. Man on stepladders adjusting continuous leader board. Crowd view of motorcycles travelling at speed on road track. Mechanic attending to motorcycle 48 (9.58) The finish and finished! Elevated view from grandstand of finish line, driver being helped away from crash. Crashed motorcycle (10.08) The winning team. Motorcycle 48, 3 racers pose for picture. Completed continuous leader board. Man and women posing for camera, stars and stripes flag fluttering in background. Tracking shot at speed through countryside (10.51) One of the 37 miles of the circuit, the 5-6 milestones. Wobbly tracking shot through countryside (11.40) Manx Grand Prix Senior 1935 gvs numbered motorcycles on starting grid. Brief shot leader board. Man in hat and long coat signalling individual bikers to push start. Gvs motorcycles racing through crowd-lined streets, later through quieter streets in countryside. Motorcycle passes chequered flag, c/u leader board (13.29) Our Winner. Bikers walk past camera. C/u face smiling man with moustache. C/u trophy. Brief views bikers. Camera pans grandstand roof 'Daily Mail News Chronicle'. Submarine in water (14.16)